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Poetry for Children (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Thanks to all of you who read and commented in my Dear One contest . Congratulations, Marilyn Hollinshead, Mary Lee Hahn, Susan Taylor Brown, Dianne White, Jo Ann Macken, Tricia Stohr-Hunt, Karla Schmidt, Linda Kulp, Steven Withrow, Kelly Fineman, Bruce Black, and Kristy Dempsey. (I need your mailing addresses, Mary Lee and Jo Ann. Just email me at svardell at twu dot edu) That project was such a labor...
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The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
• Tre Sekunder ( Three Seconds ) by Anders Roslund and Borge Hellström has won the 2009 Best Swedish Crime Novel Award . Meanwhile, Andrew Taylor ’s excellent Bleeding Heart Square picked up the Martin Beck Award for translated fiction. (Hat tip to In Reference to Murder ). • The November/December issue of ThugLit is now available online , with contributions from Ryan Zimmerman,...
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Fake Teams (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
More photos » by Fred Thornhill - AP about 1 month ago: Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Roy Halladay throws against the Seattle Mariners during first-inning AL baseball game action in Toronto, Friday, Sept. 25, 2009. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press,Fred Thornhill) Browse more photos » There has been 3-4 trades made already this offseason, and the GM meetings haven't even started. With the...
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The Good Phight (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Baseball Prospectus | Ahead in the Count: Home-Field Advantage, Part Five The Good Phight's Blogger Emeritus Matt Swartz with the last part of his five-parter on home-field advantage. Subscription required. Happ, Eyre head list of injured pitchers Soreness in the pitching elbow is always a wonderful sign. Stutes, R-Phils take aim at Aeros in playoff opener Reading Phillies in the playoffs for the first...
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Minor League Ball (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
by H. RUMPH JR - AP Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher J.A. Happ (AP Photo/H. Rumph Jr) View full size photo uploaded September 3, 2009 Philadelphia Phillies Top 20 PRE-SEASON Prospects in Review This list was originally published October 28, 2008 . This is a review of the PRE-SEASON list for 2009, not a revision of that list. This is a REVIEW of the old list. I'm not doing new grades or lists...